Rants

Disturbed at the pontoons loaded with ordinance floating near the publisher pile at Birchgrove, I took a flight as far south as possible to escape New Years Eve. Hobart was booked solid, so I settled for Launceston. Surely they’ve never heard of Foti or met any of the Howard Sons down there, I reasoned? But…

UPDATED 3 January, 2014. While CX is certain every performer and contractor associated with the amazingly bungled NYE Water Party at Village Roadshow’s new Wet’n’Wild park in Sydney was paid in full by the promoter, there’s plenty of tales of woe associated with no payment or part payment generally. No one has contacted CX to…

Just briefly – having a quiet few while my mate Chris Mysinski mixes for Peter Northcote at the regular Balmain Sunday Drive gig at The Bridge Hotel. The usual random lineup happens from Northcote’s crony world, which goes to the charm of the whole Sunday (before 7pm) rock gig cover song thing. This drummer, who…

Eventually you arrive and if direct from Sydney it will be night. My hotel is simply called PUBLIC and the doorman had to weave and duck through a heaving reception area between two bars loaded with young creatures very similar to those pictured. Indeed a group of girls were posing for a photo right in…

Finally the bully bosses are being hauled to account, with the University of the Sunshine Coast yesterday ordered to pay $364,000 in damages after an ‘executive’ verbally abused a female security guard in 2008. Mark Bradley was named as the assailant, and the university failed to properly investigate the guard’s complaint that he yelled and…

Periodically, some of the editorial team from CX hangs out in a social context.  Funny, since you’d think that after a week of hurling mutual abuse around we’d have seen enough of each other.  Thing is that we all like good music played by good musicians in a good venue where the sound is good. …

Guitar legend Bob Spencer (Finch, Skyhooks, Angels and more) fired off about Live Sound engineers on Facebook, here. “You go to the gig and put your trust and the safety of your ears (and the audiences) in a sound engineer you don’t know, hoping that when the publican says the sound engineer is ‘great’, he…

Before the storm almost wiped The Big Easy off the map, it was a gritty place. We felt unsafe there, and didn’t plan a return. Until the opportunity arose to share the 61st birthday of Gino Vannelli coincided with our flight home from the Infocomm convention in Orlando. From the air it is impossible not…